"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."

~ May Sarton

"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable."

~George Washington Carver

"To live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

~Howard Zinn

"I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things."

~ Emma Goldman

"What we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy."

~Vandana Shiva

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."

~ Audre Lorde

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

~ Rumi

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things."

~ Elise Boulding

"The beauty of the seed is that out of one you can get millions. The beauty of the pollinator is it turns that one into the million. And that’s an economics of abundance. That’s an economics of sharing. That’s to me the real economics of growth. Because life is growing. The economics and technology of hybridization, of genetic modification is a deliberate creation of scarcity."